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A Jersey City man and two women are in serious condition with multiple stab wounds following what may have been a domestic incident inside a Jewett Avenue apartment building this afternoon, officials said.

“I don’t want to die,” said the man as he lay in a puddle of blood in the fourth floor hallway of the large building at Bergen Avenue, said a 26-year-old woman who lives on the same floor and opened her door after hearing police in the hallway. “The cops told him ‘No one is gonna die.’”

A spokesman for the Jersey City Medical Center said paramedics and emergency medical technicians responded to the building at about 4:45 p.m. and found a man and woman in their 40s and a woman in her 20s inside the building and they were in serious condition suffering from multiple stab and slash wounds.

They were rushed to the Medical Center where two trauma teams waited and a third was quickly assembled, hospital spokesman Mark Rabson said. They were treated by the trauma teams before being taken for MRIs to detect any internal injuries, Rabson said.

Jersey City police said they are not releasing any information on the incident because it is still under investigation and because the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office may take over the case.

A 26-year-old third-floor resident described the victims as a mother, father and daughter. She said the father and mother were taken out on stretchers but the daughter walked out with police under her own power. She also said police took away three small children and that she heard screams and then people running. She said her husband heard the couple arguing when they entered the building about 20 minutes earlier.

There was a large puddle of blood in the fourth-floor hallway which had been partially scrubbed clean and blood spatters stained the steps to the third floor hallway where there were additional blood stains.

Speaking of the male victim, the fourth-floor resident said “I couldn't tell where he was stabbed because there was blood everywhere.” She slipped out of the building saying, “I was with my 5-year-old son and he saw (the blood) but the cops said ‘It’s just ketchup.’ He’s smart though. It was crazy.”